Work required to get a working draft of the spec out

[Kristen James Eberlein <kris@eberleinconsulting.com>]

Now that we have a new template from TC Admin, we can move ahead with producing a working draft (which is the first step in the OASIS process).

In order to produce a working draft, we'll need to decide the following:

Output formats
If we do what we did for 1.2, we'll have:

• (Required) HTML on OASIS Web site (authoritative)
• (Required) PDF
• (Required) DITA in a ZIP
• CHM in a ZIP
• HTML optimized for local installation in a ZIP

Packages
We've talked about delivering the following:

• Base
• Technical content
• Everything (need a better name)

Then we'll need to perform the following work

• Update cover and notices topic to match the template that OASIS provided (work underway by Eberlein)
• Update style sheets to match the new OASIS template, including footer information
  
• Identify and correct glitches in current transformations. I'm currently aware of the following problems:
  
• Numbering is off; it starts at 2 rather than 1
• The styling of the link previews in the CHM is ugly; unnecessary big black line + no padding for box around link previews

We need a volunteer for the style sheet and transformation work ...

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Best,
Kris

Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype)